hanger created by Kumiko Kijima
When department stores and upscale boutiques order high quality wooden hangers to display their clothes, there are inevitably some that don’t make the cut. A careful inspection process removes hangars with imperfections and are rerouted to rubbish, or to be recycled into something else. But a new initiative wants to save those hangars and, be collaborating with Japanese artists, turn them into works of art.
hangers created by Ken Shiozaki
hanger created by Ken Shiozaki
From May 13 to May 19, 2015, the artful hangars will be on display at the Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi department store in Nihonbashi. Nihonga and Oil/Acrylic painters and wood sculptors from Gallery Seizan created one-of-a-kind hangars for the event. Hangars will be on sale as way to merge functional and decorative art and to encourage people to bring more art into their homes, even if into the closet.
hanger by Kenji Shimizu
hanger by Ayako Nakamura
a seasonally appropriate hanger by Haruomi Izumi
Kouki Tsujimoto
Yasushi Ikejiri
